The US President made the remarks directly to the North Korean dictator during his historic speech before South Korea’s National Assembly earlier today.
It comes as the two firebrand leaders are engaged in a war of words over North Korea’s missile tests and nuclear programme.
Trump said: "I also have come here to this peninsula to deliver a message directly to the leader of the North Korean dictatorship: The weapons you are acquiring are not making you safer.
“They are putting your regime in great danger. Every step you take down this dark path increases the peril you face.
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